Friday, September 30, 2011

To Do List Triage

M, whom you may recall drove me to transfer back in March, showed up last night in her pj's as I was putting LG to bed.  We sat on my porch and we both cried, and she said do you remember when Dr. G told you to eat all those avocadoes?

She's volunteered her services to clean my house, assemble a crib, and generally do what needs doing.  She brought me banana bread and her company and really, it turns out that's exactly what I needed last night.
One thing I know for sure:  I have good friends, online and off.

I feel like everything I wanted to get done before my due date needs to be done now because I'm operating on borrowed time.  I need to figure what to prioritize, and what my plans are if I show up to any OB appointment only to be told I'm being delivered that day.  Basic stuff, like who will pick up LG from school and feed the cats and all that.  And I wonder if I should go ahead and take that trip to Babies R Us and pick up the odds and ends that I'll need, assuming I get to keep this baby, because if he is born early, I'm certainly not going to want to be running errands when I need to be recovering from major surgery and taking care of a baby in the NICU.

What I'm surprised by is that my OB hasn't put me on bedrest, which I know is often used when IUGR seems to be an issue (the theory being that it improves blood flow to the placenta/uterus and therefore nutrition/oxygen to the baby).  I think my plan is probably to do the kind of modified activity Dr. G had me on at the beginning of the pregnancy, for the same reason.  (On that note, does anyone know if something as obvious as me eating more could help fatten this little guy up?  I highly doubt it, but I thought I'd put it out there.)

And maybe when A. comes over tonight to appease our daughters with matzoh ball soup, she'll help me figure out what needs to be on my to do list at this point and what can potentially fall by the wayside.  Because I'm too overwhelmed to tell.

So here's my plan for today:
  1. spend the remainder of the morning on writing-related tasks
  2. go to my scheduled prenatal massage
  3. pick up steroid injections from the hospital
  4. buy assorted groceries for matzoh ball fest 2011
  5. cook and clean
  6. make a to-do list for the next 1-8 weeks
  7. hope nothing else unexpected happens today
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2011 at 9:30 AM

    Sounds like a good plan--though it also sounds like an awful lot of THINGS to do. Now might be a really good time to try to concentrate more on putting your feet up & less about cleaning the house! DO let your friends help--you know they want to have something concrete to do, so when you make up that list, make up TWO lists. One of things that ONLY you can do, and one that has tasks you might be able to delegate to someone else.

    And yes, I think that you should be making an extra effort to be eating simple sugars that are easy to digest & turn into glucose. If diabetic moms can have heavy babies, I'm sure that slender moms tend to have smaller babies, and it'd be great to fatten this peanut up a bit before he arrives!

    Wishing you didn't have this worry on top of everything else. Hang in there & know you've got a lot of us out here thinking good thoughts for you. Wish I were looking forward to a matzoh ball fest tonight--sounds delish!

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  2. MeAndBabySeptember 30, 2011 at 2:24 PM

    Sprogblogger beat me to it (not hard to do these days as I comment less often than I should) but I agree: that ToDo list is way too long. And number 1 should be take care of Mama.

    Even if I'm not commenting as much as I should, I'm here and thinking of you.

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  3. HWessSeptember 30, 2011 at 5:08 PM

    I think your other commenters got it right- especially making two lists to separate tasks you can delegate and tasks you need to do yourself. Aside from eating more nutrient rich foods the only other thing that might help could be rest with light exercise (short, low intensity walks). I would cut back to almost no work for a week and see if more rest, eating and light activity help? Good luck, it's not easy to slow down!

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  4. gwinneSeptember 30, 2011 at 5:27 PM

    Thanks y'all. I do need to think about ways to delegate tasks, though mostly it's stuff I do need to do myself (or just not do until I have the time).

    As for the food thing...I agree that it certainly can't hurt. But I do eat really well, and MY weight gain hasn't been a problem (I've gained ~26 lbs).

    Today was pretty low key. The good thing about my job (the reading and writing, anyway) is that I can do it in bed. And I cut the trip to the hospital because if I go tomorrow I don't have to pay for parking :)

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  5. The Baby Chase ProjectOctober 1, 2011 at 8:04 PM

    Take care of yourself and the baby. The to do list is alot for one day. Cheering for you.

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